Deadpool 33.1

The first thing to say is that this actually fits what I thought a .1 ‘jumping-on point’ issue might be like far more than the other couple I’ve tried. It’s a one-off story, giving what I assume to be a typical flavour of the character. The second thing to say is: isn’t Bong Dazo a great name for a comedy hippy?

So the intent is right, but I can’t say the comic captures my interest at all. Deadpool is a mercenary with a big line in comedy banter. The story is a comedy too, wherein Deadpool is hired to evict the Wrecker from his home. The attempted comedy partly derives from the Wrecker being the good guy in this scenario, rather implausibly.

Trouble is, it’s a total bore that makes no sense. The Wrecker’s behaviour is wholly out of character in uninteresting ways, the old lady is a lame contrivance, the denouement is nonsense, a key phone call all but impossible, and so on. The fight scenes aren’t really bothered with – we get several pages of combat, but no one has troubled to work out any action, let alone coming up with ways of making it believable, since the Wrecker is incomparably more powerful than Deadpool. In fact the caption explaining his powers give him a lot more than I remember (he can teleport?), but he sticks with the hitting in the story.

Much as I like Bong Dazo’s name, the art is grotesque. Drawing ugly faces, distorted in apparently random ways, is not the same as being funny. Poses that made me think ‘what the fuck is he supposed to be doing?’ don’t help either. There are also too many places where the artist seems to have thought ‘hmm, I need some more muscles here – I’ll just throw on some more at random.’

It’s all a bit of a mess. A stupid story is not automatically funny. This reads as charmlessly smug, and I found it very tedious, and badly done. Another jumping-on point that guarantees I will be avoiding the series.